Lizwe linomoya thatha ibhatshi lakho
- Authors: Siboza, Nelson , Montanas brothers , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1958-04-02
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Nelspruit f-sa
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/250187 , vital:51944 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT574-M26 , Research no. M2I2
- Description: A party song accompanied by guitar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958-04-02
Swahele
- Authors: Mavimbela, Gagaza , Group of Swazi men and women , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1958-03-25
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Eswatini Usutu Forest f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/247414 , vital:51579 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT553-M5 , Research no. M2A16
- Description: Unaccompanied winnowing song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958-03-25
Ndoto
- Authors: Banda, Chintuta , Chintuta Banda and group of Ngoni men and women , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-07-19
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Bancroft mine f-za
- Language: Ngoni
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/242334 , vital:51030 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT507-L129 , Research no. L2Y11
- Description: A song, accompanied by clapping, about being full.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-07-19
Nifwe ba four pals
- Authors: Four Pals , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-07-11
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Chingola f-za
- Language: Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/240562 , vital:50848 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT487-L108 , Research no. L2Q19
- Description: A topical song about greeting mothers and brothers accompanied by guitar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-07-11
Machero nirdauka
- Authors: Coast social orchestra , Ayub, Alexander , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-09-27
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Nairobi f-ke
- Language: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/222861 , vital:48921 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT328-F128 , Research no. F5A8
- Description: A rumba song played by a dance band accompanied by trumpet, saxophone, clarinet, piano, accordion, guitar, drums and a rattle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-09-27
Gitari na Congo
- Authors: Pierre, Bakia , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-09-02
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Buta f-cg
- Language: Zande
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/222490 , vital:48873 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT323-F121 , Research no. F4W10
- Description: A song about a blacksmith who beat on his anvil and sang as he did so accompanied by a kundi harp.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-09-02
Gitari na Congo
- Authors: Pierre, Bakia , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-09-02
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Buta f-cg
- Language: Zande
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/222481 , vital:48872 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT323-F121 , Research no. F4W10
- Description: A song about a blacksmith who beat on his anvil and sang as he did so accompanied by a kundi harp.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-09-02
Nemejolia
- Authors: Sukuma, Oboto , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-08-08
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Medje f-cg
- Language: Mangbetu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/220649 , vital:48658 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT318-F100 , Research no. F4J4
- Description: Indigenous topical folk song with singing accompanied by the nenzyenzye (or nenjenje) two string lute .
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-08-08
Hereniah Awuor
- Authors: Obiero, Lang , Obiero, Horace , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-06-01
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Nairobi f-ke
- Language: Luo
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/217071 , vital:48242 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT294-F60 , Research no. F3F4
- Description: Love song accompanied by two guitars.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-06-01
Chamukumai
- Authors: Group of Lulua soldiers and women , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-02-06
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of the Congo Lubumbashi f-cg
- Language: Luba-Lulua
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/215420 , vital:48056 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT277-F33 , Research no. F1V1
- Description: Maringa dance with Chisanzhi Mbira, two pairs of rattles, basket rattle, singing gourd bottle and clapping accompaniment.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-02-06
Chamukumai
- Authors: Group of Lulua soldiers and women , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-02-06
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of the Congo Lubumbashi f-cg
- Language: Luba-Lulua
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/215411 , vital:48055 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT277-F33 , Research no. F1V1
- Description: Maringa dance with Chisanzhi Mbira, two pairs of rattles, basket rattle, singing gourd bottle and clapping accompaniment.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-02-06
Lama
- Authors: Leonard, Ndengabaganizi , Group of Tutsi singers , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-01-08
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Rwanda Usumbura f-rw
- Language: Kinyarwanda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/215140 , vital:48025 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT275-F27 , Research no. MOA NO.7 SIDE1 NO.2
- Description: Love song with clapping accompaniment.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-01-08
Chamukumai
- Authors: Group of Lulua soilders and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Luluabourg f-rh
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182182 , vital:43807 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR178-01
- Description: The Chisanzhi Mbira is the traditional type of the district: the basket rattle is a well-known woven article with a handle; the rattles had wooden handles and an open work basket head with beer bottle tops inside. The bottle is a common percussion instrument among the Lulua and the singing gourd is the favourite instrument of women's choirs in southern Congo into which they sing, lip or hum notes related to the fundamenta; note of the gourd. The somewhat strange sound of the singing gourd is the first heard at approximately 1m:30s from the start of this song. Maringa dance with Chisanzhi Mbira, two pairs of rattles, basket rattle, singing gourd bottle and clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Fila I
- Authors: Group of Luba Men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Ruund (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Lubangule f-cg
- Language: Lunda , Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182965 , vital:43898 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-12
- Description: "We are here at Katanga, but we still remember you at home in our village." Recorded at the Kipushi Mine, Katanga. Fila dance song with 4 goblet drums and struck bottle
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Lama
- Authors: Ndengabaganizi Leonard and group of Tutsi , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Rwanda , Tutsi (African people) , Hutu (African people) , Batwa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Rwanda Nyanza f-rw
- Language: Kinyarwanda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183574 , vital:44009 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR181-02
- Description: "Why do I love you when you do not respond? I have written you letters and you do not answer? I have sent messengers and you turn them away. I bow to you when we meet and you hide your face. You do not notice me. Love song with clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Tawikana mutima pano
- Authors: Ruben Tancard Mbuluwundi , Tumbuka/Henga men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Livingstonia f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185344 , vital:44367 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR189-11
- Description: "If people are jealous of you in a village because of your success, your fowls and your cattle, your wives and your children, then you should get up and go to another village and not live among jealous people any more." Topical song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Katuiyo I
- Authors: Kenik, Kipterer Arap , Kipsigis men and girls , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1950-09-15
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Kericho f-ke
- Language: Kipsigis
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/213240 , vital:47810 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT217-D137 , Research no. D6L8
- Description: Unaccompanied dance song for men.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950-09-15
Katuiyo II
- Authors: Ng'asura, Charondet Arap , Kipsigis men , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1950-09-15
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Kericho f-ke
- Language: Kipsigis
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/213249 , vital:47811 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT217-D137 , Research no. D6L8
- Description: Dance song for men and women with Chepkongo 6 string bowl lyre and laced accompaniment.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950-09-15
Woca mwana
- Authors: Shonga, Nezala , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1950-05-26
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/211406 , vital:47611 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT175-D34 , Research no. D2A9
- Description: Humorous song with Bango Board Zither accompaniment.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950-05-26
Ndimbiri imene
- Authors: Limbani, Jasoni , Malembesa, Dikisoni , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1950-05-12
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Not specified f-mw
- Language: Nyanja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/210875 , vital:47551 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT157-D21 , Research no. DN8
- Description: Vocal folk song after hunting unaccompanied.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950-05-12